4/28 Milford, Connecticut Audubon Coastal Center 10AM-1PM
cloudy, drizzle, 50, high tide rising.
The female osprey sat on her 4 eggs the entire 3 hrs, except for a brief
fly around the nest (for exercise, I suppose). the male osprey was on his
perch the entire 3 hours, consuming a fish and snoozing on and off. At
10:50AM, a third osprey entered their airspace which caused a commotion-lots
of calling and the resident male flapping his wings (not letting go of that
fish) in quite a display. The interloper osprey then left the area.
Other species on the marsh were 225 Brant, 2 Greater yellowlegs,
29 mute swans, 6 unidentified peeps, 4 Great egrets, 1 mallard, 2 Black
ducks. In the feeder area was an
Eastern towhee (f.), house sparrows, 7 white throated sparrows, 1 song
sparrow, mourning doves, a cardinal, red winged blackbirds, common grackles,
robins. 1 Female Turkey foraging in front of the building.
After a quick visit to my mother in Woodbridge, I drove near Konold's Pond
briefly and had many barn swallows swooping all around the road going to
the animal shelter there. I drove very slowly and they just about avoided
my car.
I still have 3 white throated sparrows in my yard.
Bev Propen, Orange
P.S.- As an aside regarding the oil spill in the Gulf-it is soooo
disturbing. neither scenario for remediating the oil spill sounds very good for
migrants.
So very sad. Maybe the only good to come of it would be for Obama to
reconsider any further construction of oil or gas exploration .